High blood pressure easy to miss in children with kidney disease

Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 06:49 in Health & Medicine

Spot blood pressure readings in children with chronic kidney disease often fail to detect hypertension - even during doctor's office visits - increasing a child's risk for serious heart problems, according to research from Johns Hopkins Children's Centre and other institutions. A report of the findings appears online in the Journal of American Society of Nephrology...

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